LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
(Left) Some of the Survivors of Portrush Northern Ireland Raft Race
(Left) Some of the survivors of Portrush, Northern Ire/and, raft race at the finishing line. The race, paddled in cold, blustery weather on May 28 by more than 60 competitors from all over the Province, raised a fine £5,000 for the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Life-Boat Saturday Fund
ALL through the current year the cry of "bad business" and "no business" has been resounding through| the land, north, south, east and west, and the general depression, which seems to have settled upon us, might...
Category: Articles
North Britain, of Southampton
.—On the after- noon of the 6th December, information was received here that a large vessel was in a very perilous position in the bay, and the life-boat Richard Lewis, at Penzance, was at once got in readiness, in case her services should...
The Life-Boat Transporting-Carriage
The Life-boat transporting-carriage is a very important auxiliary to the boat.
Every Life-boat, except a few of the larger size, is provided with a carriage, on which she is kept in the boat-house ready for immediate...
Category: Articles
Buy a Life-Boat Calendar!
FOR the last three years the Institution has distributed a Life-boat Calendar, with a view to keeping the work of the j Life-boat Service continually before the public. By doing this the Committee of Management have felt that they might also...
Category: Advertisement
Two Tank Landing Craft
BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT ST. DAVID'S APRIL 25TH - 26TH. - ST. DAVID’S, PEMBROKESHIRE. At ten in theevening a message was received from the coastguard, that a tank landing craft was in distress one mile southsouth- east of St. Ann’s Head....
IRB Launches North-West District
Rescues by IRBs in August were carried out by the following stations: Moelfre, Anglesey - At 4.55 p.m. on 8th August, 1966, a small boat was reported drifting out to sea off Moelfre island. The IRB was launched at 5 o'clock in a moderate...
Category: Services
Bookshelf
Britain's Historic Coast By Alison Gale Published by Tempus Publishing Ltd ISBN: 0-7524-1456-9 Price: £19.99 . _ _ H Alison Gale takes a trip through time that explains how human activity has both exploited and left its mark upon...
Category: Articles
July
JULY 11TH . - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.
At 5 in the morning the coastguard reported that a steam trawler was ashore and then that she was making distress signals, and the motor life-boat Julia Park Barry of Glasgow was...
Category: Services
The Ferries European Gateway and Speedlink (1)
Ferry collision HARWICH HARBOUR RADIO received a call at 2251 on Sunday December 19, 1982, from the outward bound roll-on roll-off ferry European Gateway reporting that she was in collision with the inward bound ferry Speedlink Vanguard in...